This article was originally published in The Atlantic on May 2, 2017. In his 1955 short story Franchise, Isaac Asimov imagined how American democracy might be radically transformed by the digital age.

Despite writing some of the most influential sci-fi stories of all time, filmmakers have found it a huge challenge to adapt ...

In 1988, Isaac Asimov co-created the ABC sci-fi series Probe, starring Parker Stevenson and Ashley Crow, that felt ahead of ...

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) wrote 470 books on every subject from robots to Shakespeare and an estimated 90,000 letters, hundreds of which are collected here by his brother, an adjunct associate ...

As Radio 4 broadcasts its adaptation of these short stories, the series' scriptwriter, Richard Kurti, takes a look at some of ...

Isaac Asimov had a PhD in chemistry. His first sci-fi story was rejected by a publisher in 1938. (Photo by Phillip Leonian from New York via Wikimedia Commons) One of the greatest science-fiction ...

In a letter sent to the FBI’s director J. Edgar Hoover in 1960, a classified source used Asimov’s claim that the world’s first nuclear power plant was built in Soviet Russia as evidence of his ...

Apple TV’s epic space opera adapts an acclaimed sci-fi books series that also served as the key inspiration for Hugh Howey’s ...

As Foundation star Lee Pace sees it, the show's unique approach to adapting Isaac Asimov's source material prevents it from ...

Isaac Asimov made his first major voyage when he was three years old. Having been born in the Soviet Union, the creator of the famous three laws of robotics sailed across the Atlantic in the wake of ...